Principal Software Engineer - Backend

At Dubizzle Labs, we are looking to further expand our Pakistan office of already 400+. We are most interested in bringing on board colleagues who love to learn, perform, and teach. We are building a high-quality engineering environment with a super focus on delivering value to customers. Your primary responsibility would be to build world-class suite products to support the hyper-growth of our businesses in 10 countries. Responsibilities: Hit the ground running - Gather up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the dubizzle code base and technologies stack within weeks; Lead planning sessions around new product features, deliver detailed roll-out/roll-back strategies for releases. Research and apply industry trends as part of your daily work; Create unit tests in accordance with our established standards to cover assigned work; Write and maintain exemplary code following dubizzle’s programming practices; Actively contribute in post-release maintenance issues; Develop elegant solutions for complex problems; Pioneer reliability and efficiency of our current code base, platforms and/or core systems; Impact on the direction and scope of dubizzle’s technical vision within your stream; Work in a mentoring capacity within a peer-programming environment and provide guidance on tasks, irrespective of complexity or scale; Code review all major pull requests, defining programming standards and providing constructive feedback. Design and delivery of multiple REST based APIs and previous exposure to Service Oriented Architecture; Capacity to push back requirements when incomplete; Handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end Lead product planning meetings and architect solutions within your stream; Requirements: 8+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience; Python preferred; Experience with Cloud hosted infrastructure and Technologies; AWS preferred; Prior experience with Kubernetes & Docker will earn you brownie points; Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web products is preferred; Experience with web infrastructure, SOA, distributed systems, performance analysis, search infrastructure; Been on at least one “death march” and know exactly why some things are to be avoided; Strong understanding of design patterns including asynchronous programming, queuing, logging, security and persistence; Mastery of different caching layers and strategies including memcached; Good understanding of build process management and continuous integration; Mastery of testing methodologies (unit tests, component tests, integration tests, etc.);